Tag: AfCFTA

Africa’s Industrialisation and the AfCFTA: What can we learn from trade-investment-industrial policy linkages and experiences in Southern Africa? Trade law and policy experts ca...

Facelift for land ports of entry (SAnews) Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says officials are committed to making the country’s border posts safer, less porous and mo...

According to Article 23 of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), entry into force occurs 30 days after the 22nd instrument of ratificati...

In 2022, South Africa’s intra-African merchandise trade was valued at approximately US$40 billion, accounting for only 17% of the country’s total merchandise trade. South Afric...

SARS records R16 billion trade boost for South Africa (BusinessTech) South Africa saw a preliminary trade balance surplus of R16.0 billion in July 2023, data from the South Africa...

NEV disruption holds opportunities for OEMs, component manufacturers (Engineering News) The world is at the beginning of the biggest disruption to the automotive industry in 100 y...

South Africa: Draft Freight Logistics Roadmap promised by year-end (Engineering News) A new ‘Freight Logistics Roadmap’ is currently undergoing an internal government consulta...

Taking Uganda-South Africa trade and investment forward (The Independent Uganda) Latest data from the Bank of Uganda shows that the East African nation and South Africa’s trade ...

This trade brief explores the potential for AfCFTA-enabled regional value chain (RVC) development for Egypt, a North African country with significant value chain links with Europe ...

Sustaining existing trade partnerships and finding new markets is imperative for SA agriculture (Bizcommunity) South Africa is in the enviable position of being a net exporter of ...

There are high expectations about what will happen once the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is fully operational. Some predict that intra-African trade in goods (and s...

South Africa foreign policy in a tangle (CAJ News Africa) This year will go down the annals of history as one in which the southern African nation faced the greatest dilemma in ju...

BRICS: SA-China trade is nothing unfair, says SA Chamber of Commerce (IOL) South Africa should improve its industrialisation and manufacturing capacity in a bid to balance the tra...

This trade brief explores the potential for AfCFTA-enabled regional value chain (RVC) development for Algeria, a North African country with significant value chain links with Europ...

Economists see South Africa averting second-quarter contraction (Engineering News) South Africa’s economy probably avoided a contraction in the second quarter, despite record po...

A recent communication from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat to the African Union (AU) Member States says that in order to facilitate the Guided Trade I...

The objectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) of boosting intra-African trade in goods and services and eventually “to create a single market for goods, serv...

The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement may start soon. In this Update, we remind readers of what the legal instruments of the AfCFTA provi...

There is a provision in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement which provides that: [the] Council of Ministers shall within its mandate take decisions in accor...

Patel stresses importance of China-South Africa trade (Engineering News) Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has welcomed the August 10 signing of trade and pur...